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  1. TechCrunch AI
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    Meta's AI app Muse reaches 10.2 million US downloads 40 days after launch

    Meta's AI app Muse has accumulated 10.9 million downloads since launching in September, including 10.2 million in the US market, making it one of the few apps to reach that scale within 40 days of launch. Sensor Tower data shows that Muse's 7-day retention rate in the US is 30% and its 14-day retention rate is 23%, above the averages of 19% and 16% for ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok; on October 16, its daily active users reached 2.5 million for the first time, up 15% month over month. In October, Meta allocated 39% of its advertising spend to promoting Muse, up from 23% the previous month.

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  2. TechCrunch AI
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    Bloomberg says Schmidt holds about 1% stake in Anthropic

    According to Bloomberg, former Google CEO Schmidt participated in Anthropic's Series A funding round in 2021, investing tens of millions of dollars, and currently holds about 1% of the company. The report says this proportion is about half of the 2% held by co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei; Anthropic is widely expected to go public before the end of the year, with a maximum valuation expectation of $2 trillion, at which point the value of Schmidt's stake could increase by as much as $20 billion. Neither Schmidt nor Anthropic immediately responded to requests for comment.

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  6. TechCrunch AI
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    Anthropic proposes draft AI safety bill that would block model releases when risk of 50+ deaths exists

    Anthropic has pitched a draft AI safety bill to Congress that would allow a model's release to be blocked when it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk that could cause 50 or more deaths or more than $1 billion in property damage. The risk must stem from the manufacture of bioweapons, the model evading its developer's control, or cyberattacks. The draft requires an independent evaluator registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce to determine the risk; the evaluator must report within 72 hours, after which the Commerce Department would apply to a Washington, D.C., judge for an order to halt the release. Federal agencies would not be allowed to decide on blocking a release themselves.

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  10. 36Kr · AI
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    OpenAI advances roughly $30 billion funding round, aiming to lock in investors ahead of Anthropic's IPO

    According to Reuters, OpenAI is accelerating a roughly $30 billion funding round, targeting a valuation above $1.4 trillion, seeking to lock in investors before Anthropic's expected mid-November IPO; existing investors including SoftBank and Abu Dhabi's MGX are in talks to participate. OpenAI told investors that growth accelerated after the release of GPT-6 Astra, with annualized revenue already at $50 billion and expected to rise to $70 billion by year-end; Anthropic said its third-quarter revenue rose from $11.6 billion to $16.8 billion, but slowing month-over-month growth has raised valuation concerns. The two also differ on revenue recognition: OpenAI recognizes revenue on a net basis and has accused Anthropic of recognizing revenue on a gross basis under third-party cloud vendor contracts.

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  16. Tech.eu
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    Daytona raises $60M Series B at a $1B valuation

    Daytona, which provides cloud infrastructure for AI agents, has raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $91 million, with FirstMark leading the round. Its platform provides agents with isolated Linux, Windows, and macOS compute environments through a single API, supports pausing, resuming, and continuing exploration of tasks, and its customers include Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor, and Cognition. The company says its revenue run rate grew 25x from January to September, and the new funds will be used to expand its agent cloud platform, scale compute capacity, and hire in San Francisco, Croatia, and Singapore.

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